How the record has moved
Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.
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Thursday 15 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
1
hour burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 3:41pm today
The Crooks Creek Rd 3440 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Josephine County, Oregon. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
60 minutes
on record — first written down on Thursday 15 October at 2:42pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
42.311, -123.501lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 11.5 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 24% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the south.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Dexter Way 378 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 4.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lakeshore Dr. 990 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 5.8 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Keen Rd 478 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 6.1 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Three Mill Rd 774 Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 6.3 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Stringer Gap Rd 2250 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 7.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Patrick Rd 129 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 8.2 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 30 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.